CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Dedication, -^ 



Introduction to First Edition vii 



Introduction to Second Edition x 



CHAPTER I. 

 Our Soils. 



Farming on an Exhausted Soil, 2 



Farming on Productive Soil, 3 



Farming on Government Lands, 4 



CHAPTER II. 

 Our Plants. 



How to Feed Them, 8 



Comparative Tables 12 



Barn-yard Manure, 13 



Green Manure, 17 



Liquid Manure, 22 



Saving Manure (Plaster), 25 



Commercial Fertilizer, 25 



Oil Cake and Cotton-Seed Meal 30 



CHAPTER III. 

 Our Animals. 



How to Feed Them Economically, . . . .33 



The Cow as a Machine, 33 



When Insufficiently Fed 35 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Soiling. 



My First Lesson in Agriculture, 38 



How I Happened to Adopt Soiling 44 



